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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Han Xu, who has served as ambassador for six years, told a crowd of nearly 500 at the Institute of Politics that U.S. support for Taiwan could be a source of frustration in future Sino-American relations...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Nordhaus, | Title: Taiwan Issue Understanding Urged | 11/7/1986 | See Source »

...Han also attacked the Taiwanese government for blocking the free flow of mail, shipping and trade between the two countries...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Nordhaus, | Title: Taiwan Issue Understanding Urged | 11/7/1986 | See Source »

...Some Chinese have members of their direct families living in Taiwan. How anybody can deny them the right to see their dear ones, I don't understand," Han said. When the communists under Mao Zedong gained control of China in 1949, the Nationalist forces of Chiang Kai-Shek took refuge on the nearby island of Taiwan...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Nordhaus, | Title: Taiwan Issue Understanding Urged | 11/7/1986 | See Source »

...Han, 62, was originally scheduled to speak on "Economic Reform of China," but chose instead to focus on the current state of American-Chinese relations...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Nordhaus, | Title: Taiwan Issue Understanding Urged | 11/7/1986 | See Source »

...half is an elaborate Michael Jackson video, in which the star emerges from his rickety spaceship to do battle with the Evil Empress, played with magisterial malevolence by Oscar Winner Anjelica Huston (Prizzi's Honor). Jackson, who by now could double for his own Tussaud waxwork, is an improbable Han Solo, but he still dances like a jive Astaire and earned audible swoons from teenage girls at the premiere. The film's 3-D effects are familiar but engineered with flair: an asteroid waits to plop in your lap, Fuzzball hovers adorably over your shoulder, and Huston's tentacle talons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let's Go to the Feelies | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

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